Robert Lee "Bobby" Weinstein grew up in New York City, and attended the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan. While there, he formed a vocal group, The Legends, with fellow students Marshall Samples, Ron Warwell, Richard "Chico" Brunson, Sampson Reese and Dominick Fleres.
Above the four know members of The Legends, Clockwise from above; Bobby Weinstein, Dominick Fleres, Richard "Chico" Brunson and Ron Warwell.
The group won a talent contest at the Apollo Theater in 1955, and recorded in September of 1956 for the small Melba Label, "The Eyes Of An Angel / I'll Never Fall In Love Again. followed in 1957 by "The Legend Of Love / Now I'm Telling You ".Afer of this recording he group broke up and Bobby and Dominic joined The Kartunes on MGM (see in this blog).
In 1957, Bobby began writing songs with Teddy Randazzo, who had sung in another vocal group, The Three Chuckles. Their first major hit as co-writers was "Pretty Blue Eyes," recorded by Steve Lawrence and produced by Don Costa, which reached no. 9 on the pop charts at the start of 1960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Weinstein
http://www.uncamarvy.com/Legends/legends.html
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